I started this blog years ago to share our experiences with other cultures.
Here I am in 2017 using this and my twitter account for all things ANTI TRUMP
PRO HUMANITY and most important FREE SPEECH
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Friday, January 27, 2017
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Heal the World
When I restarted this blog just a few days ago, I had no idea that this video was being sent out. I grew up with We are the World. My passion for understanding others and caring for ALL..
Please enjoy this song by Maati Baani
Heal the World
Please enjoy this song by Maati Baani
Heal the World
Monday, September 5, 2016
Amazing the Journey since my last post.
I was working on my other blogs and saw that this one still exists. We have met and became family with so many over the years since I last posted. One of our most loved sons (my Taiwanese son Ian) has gotten married and I went to the wedding, they came back for a visit last year with our Taiwanese grandson and his wife. So excited that they have now added a second grand child to my heart with a daughter. Ian's sister Ayu has stayed with us off and on over the years, then last year she sent a friend of hers and she has also become like a daughter to myself and my husband. We were so pleased to meet her fiance and are excited for the wedding. (when they figure that out).
AirBnB has now become popular..We hosted several short term students, one from Switzerland Rahel, has also found a place in our hears.
As I look at all the changes in our life and my original desire for this blog, my heart also breaks for all of the refugees that have no home, they do not have the opportunity to enjoy and experience a homestay or experience a different country thru AirBnB and other amazing tools that many of us use and have the opportunity to use to explore the world.
One thing that AirBnB does offer is that during a natural disaster, you can agree to open your home to those needing shelter. It is heart breaking that many people some of us would welcome into our home, to provide shelter, food and rest and not able to get out of the camps or countries they are in.
Be blessed as you read this and so many other travel blogs, complain about the cost of travel or so many countries and not enough time. We also have the same complaints.
But we also continue with our commitment to one love one home. Whether thru hosting in our home or guests in others.
There are ways to help and or get information about the size of the crisis: here are a few sites.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-09-03/5-groups-doing-important-work-help-refugees-you-may-not-have-heard
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/02/syrias-refugee-crisis-in-numbers/
AirBnB has now become popular..We hosted several short term students, one from Switzerland Rahel, has also found a place in our hears.
As I look at all the changes in our life and my original desire for this blog, my heart also breaks for all of the refugees that have no home, they do not have the opportunity to enjoy and experience a homestay or experience a different country thru AirBnB and other amazing tools that many of us use and have the opportunity to use to explore the world.
One thing that AirBnB does offer is that during a natural disaster, you can agree to open your home to those needing shelter. It is heart breaking that many people some of us would welcome into our home, to provide shelter, food and rest and not able to get out of the camps or countries they are in.
Be blessed as you read this and so many other travel blogs, complain about the cost of travel or so many countries and not enough time. We also have the same complaints.
But we also continue with our commitment to one love one home. Whether thru hosting in our home or guests in others.
There are ways to help and or get information about the size of the crisis: here are a few sites.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-09-03/5-groups-doing-important-work-help-refugees-you-may-not-have-heard
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/02/syrias-refugee-crisis-in-numbers/
Sunday, August 4, 2013
New Beginnings
I started this blog to share the positive experiences of doing home stays.. Although they can be great and I recommend everyone to try it.. I am shifting the focus of this blog to a different piece of one love one home.. that of the ways people do things in other countries..
As time has gone on.. I find myself telling home stays and others.. we (people) all do the same things.. we do them different and for different reasons...
Understanding this.. helps with not seeing others as wrong or different, but having a different way of doing the same task or family function.
I am not here to solve the worlds issues.. but do my part to help show the similarities of all of mankind...
As time has gone on.. I find myself telling home stays and others.. we (people) all do the same things.. we do them different and for different reasons...
Understanding this.. helps with not seeing others as wrong or different, but having a different way of doing the same task or family function.
I am not here to solve the worlds issues.. but do my part to help show the similarities of all of mankind...
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Why we love homestays
We have a wonderful student from Spain right now and another very nice woman from South Korea just left. Appreciating each others cultural and family differences is what it is all about.
Our Korean Student had been in Georgia for a few years so she didn't have many questions and was only with us a short while. But our Spanish student.. is so eager to learn about our culture and ways.. and to see how similar but just a bit different we all are.
Wanted to wish everyone a very happy american holiday.
Happy 4th of July!
Our Korean Student had been in Georgia for a few years so she didn't have many questions and was only with us a short while. But our Spanish student.. is so eager to learn about our culture and ways.. and to see how similar but just a bit different we all are.
Wanted to wish everyone a very happy american holiday.
Happy 4th of July!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Students and my cooking
This is just a short post. first our new student arrived. very nice and excited about his time at GIA, then our second student arrived from Korea (only with us a few weeks until she finds an apartment) also very nice.
My husband is a great cook and I get by. We had planned to have him make the first few dinners so as not to scare them away. Unfortunately, he has two dental appointments and a family meeting this week. So it's my cooking.
I mangled pasta last night... even I have to admit it was bad, tonight I am making meatloaf.. this I can do..
tomorrow a cooked chicken compliments of Costco..
Many of the Asian countries appreciate the art of the food. Only these students go to fine restaurants and take pictures of the plates and presentations...
Family dinners in the USA can be a bit of a shock. In general, we value the company at the dinner table much more then what is put on the table.. Unless we are going out.. our goal is to put something on the table.. not looking at it as an event.
So for now... we will muddle through the first few meals.. and find a happy compromise between high end cuisine and the normal meals of American life...
Bon Appetit!
My husband is a great cook and I get by. We had planned to have him make the first few dinners so as not to scare them away. Unfortunately, he has two dental appointments and a family meeting this week. So it's my cooking.
I mangled pasta last night... even I have to admit it was bad, tonight I am making meatloaf.. this I can do..
tomorrow a cooked chicken compliments of Costco..
Many of the Asian countries appreciate the art of the food. Only these students go to fine restaurants and take pictures of the plates and presentations...
Family dinners in the USA can be a bit of a shock. In general, we value the company at the dinner table much more then what is put on the table.. Unless we are going out.. our goal is to put something on the table.. not looking at it as an event.
So for now... we will muddle through the first few meals.. and find a happy compromise between high end cuisine and the normal meals of American life...
Bon Appetit!
Sunday, June 12, 2011
A fresh start and a wonderful summer ahead. It is safe:)
We are so excited to start off our summer with a new student from the Philippines with a family background and roots in Hong Kong...
One item that always seems to come up is.. Is it safe? such a very practical question and one that I used to be offended by. But most students, in fact most people, only see the worst of the U.S.A. when watching the news. Gang killings, Drug wars and crime everywhere is what is portrayed.
How to explain that although there are major social issues in our country most people do not see them or are exposed to this part of life.
I have come to enjoy these questions and use them as a means of finding common ground. In every country there are areas and issues that make one afraid to travel. Knowledge and education usually teaches us that they are tragic issues isolated to a specific region.
Just like people from the USA, that make broad generalizations about whole groups or regions of the world. Others also do this. The difference is we (U.S.A.) are more transparent and therefore more open to critique and fear.
Yes, there are parts of Los Angeles you don't go to.. I know where they are.. but I have never been. It is the same in any large city in every country in the world.
So before you nix the idea of a trip to a country because of crime or other issues.. research it, find out where to avoid and more importantly find out where you can go and what you will miss if you don't go.
I do this with our students. It is our hope that they begin to see the USA in a different perspective and enjoy our country with all it's faults and pimples...
Having a different more informed world view is a major part of our love of home stays..
Arrivals start tomorrow... Our new journey with new friends begins.
One item that always seems to come up is.. Is it safe? such a very practical question and one that I used to be offended by. But most students, in fact most people, only see the worst of the U.S.A. when watching the news. Gang killings, Drug wars and crime everywhere is what is portrayed.
How to explain that although there are major social issues in our country most people do not see them or are exposed to this part of life.
I have come to enjoy these questions and use them as a means of finding common ground. In every country there are areas and issues that make one afraid to travel. Knowledge and education usually teaches us that they are tragic issues isolated to a specific region.
Just like people from the USA, that make broad generalizations about whole groups or regions of the world. Others also do this. The difference is we (U.S.A.) are more transparent and therefore more open to critique and fear.
Yes, there are parts of Los Angeles you don't go to.. I know where they are.. but I have never been. It is the same in any large city in every country in the world.
So before you nix the idea of a trip to a country because of crime or other issues.. research it, find out where to avoid and more importantly find out where you can go and what you will miss if you don't go.
I do this with our students. It is our hope that they begin to see the USA in a different perspective and enjoy our country with all it's faults and pimples...
Having a different more informed world view is a major part of our love of home stays..
Arrivals start tomorrow... Our new journey with new friends begins.
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